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News
There are lots of great things happening these days at the Comedor de Melchorita Saravia.
Happy Mothersday
Together with Social Creativa we organized a beautiful event for the mothersday. It was full poems, theater and dance. Our kids closed the event with a beautiful choreography. It was the first time for many of our kids that they got out of their village. The first night our event took place in Casa Andina in Chincha, a beautiful hotel and the second was in the cultural center of Chincha. It was the first time that our kids were allowed to stay awake that late during the week. The next day during breakfast everybody was tired but happy and our kids felt like real artists.
Our new volunteer
Our new volunteer Aaron comes from spain and will stay with us for the next four month. He impressed the kids from the beginning on with his card tricks and he will be doing with the kids computation classes, chess, football, theater and continue our chicos bemelsa group. He is a great help during breakfast and lunch with our 200 kids and all of us are happy to have him here. Thank you Aaron! Bienvenido a Perú.
Paiting recycled bottles with Social Creativa
The mission of the ngo Social Creativa is to connect children and youth trough creative workshops to develop their talents in a healthy way and to motivate them constantly to discover, share and value the best of each and their environment.
They came to Bemelsa and shared a really beautiful project: paiting recycled bottles. The kids loved it.
Another activity we started with Social Creativa is our Dance Mentoring Program: The youth of social creativa formed a partnership with our youth. With the professional training that they receive through Social Creativa they are more than qualified to help our youth explore the dance styles of ballett, hip hop and breakdance. We couldnt be more excited about this new program.
Our beautiful Bemelsa T-shirts
Thanks to sir Manuel Flores of the company topitop we got for all of our 200 kids Bemelsa T-shirts.
They are beautiful and our kids are wearing them nearly every day.
Muchas gracias de todos nuestros 200 niños y del equipo de Bemelsa a señor Manuel Flores de topitop por esta donación generosa.
We have a new and full after school activities schedule:
Monday: computation and dance mentoring program with social creativa
Tuesday: math for kids, computation and math for teens
Wednesday: yoga, math and computation
Thursday: grammar and computation
Friday: dance for little ones, theater and dance mentoring program
saturday: chicas and chicos bemelsa
:) thanks to the many volunteers that make this possible, especially to the volunteers of the computation classes and the teens of social creativa!
School supplies campaign 2012
After 7 weeks of summercamp its time for school! With school supplies for all of our 200 kids and a free haircut we made them ready for school. Now they can start the school with all the things they need. Thanks to all the donors that made this possible, especially thanks to our volunteers Gisela and Cristina for their big fundraiser.
Summercamp
We are already in week three of summercamp. The first was Science week and in the second was art week. Our week of Science was full of fun science classes by our volunteer Miranda. She did forensic science, microscopy, an egg drop competion and bubble science. With the little kids we did colors, dinosaurs and volcanos. The other volunteers prepared classes of Art, Dance, Games, Team buiding activities, Photography and of course we went to the swimming pool and friday to the beach. Our second week of summercamp was full of dance, art, creative writing, face painting, bubbles, friendship braclets, sculptures, photography, woolen art, swim classes, games, yoga and first time beach for most of the kids! thanks to all of our volunteers that make this amazing expierience for our kids possible!
This week is Green Living and we are learning about recycling and conservation. We are making a roof garden and art and musical instruments from recycled trash.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Sending the warmest Christmas wishes to you and your family from the whole Bemelsa Family in Grocio Prado, Perú. Feliz Navidad y un prospero Año Nuevo!
More fiestas!
We participated with our kids at the parade of the aniversary of our distrit Grocio Prado. Our kids dressed up and represented the typical workers in our distrit: farmers, flower ladies, artisans and picaroneros. Our kids did a really great job. We also had another little pre-christmas-party organized by the school San Vicente. It was a big party with a lot of dancing and great presents. Thanks to the Colegio San Vicente de Paul for making this party possible.
Nuestro reporte anual de nuestros actividades 2011
Fiesta!
We had a little pre-christmas-party for our little ones organized by a private school in Grocio Prado. We danced for hours and learned new choreographies. At the end we shared a hot choclate and each kid got a present from one of the students. Thank you so much, this party was really fun and the kids loved it!
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
The Bemelsa Family participated at the international day for the elimination of violence against women. This issue is very prevelant in our comunity and we took this opportunity to speak with our youth group Chicas Bemelsas about how to protect themselves from violence. This ties in well with the other themes we have been working on with them such as self-esteem, self-worth and goal setting.
More volunteers!
our new peruvian volunteer Miguel Angel is teaching the math and comunication classes in a really creative and interesting way. The kids love it! We are happy that you are helping us!welcome in the Bemelsa Famliy!
Our Halloween-Party!
We just had our Halloween party at the Comedor where we had face painting, trick-or-treat, bobbing for apples, three-legged race, mummy wrap, skeleton race, bingo, bean bag toss, and a haunted house. The Comedor was decked out in Halloween art that the kids had been making the week leading up to the party. It was very fun sharing this American holiday with the children. We had quite a suprise in while watching the Thriller video when there was an aftershock from an earthquake that had hit Peru earlier that morning. We will never forgot that we are in an earthquake zone. Thank you to everyone who donated and helped us to make this party possible!
Vaccinations for everyone
Another vaccination day at the Comedor. All of our kids are getting vaccinations against Hepatitis and Tetanus. Our director Selene is keeping track of every kid and knows who is getting the next vaccination and when. Thanks to the staff of the medical center that always has a lot of patience with all of our kids. We always need a lot of sweets for the kids that are afraid and crying. Dayvis is a brave one!